By KUNA
Kabul : One soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and another two wounded in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, the military said on Thursday.
“An ISAF soldier was killed and two were injured in an explosion during a patrol in southern Afghanistan,” said the statement.
Without disclosing the exact location of the incident and the nationalities of the soldiers killed and injured, the alliance said the blast happened Wednesday.
With the fresh casualty, the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far this year is 11.
Separately, Afghan officials said civilians and policemen were killed as US aircrafts pounded suspected Taliban hideouts in the province of Ghazni, located some 90 miles south of Kabul.
A doctor, who wished not to be named, told KUNA over the telephone that the dead included eight Afghan policemen and two civilians.
The coalition said those killed were Taliban militants or their facilitators.
A statement from the coalition forces’ Bagram base here said that the troops also arrested nine suspects and recovered cache of weapons in the operation.